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THE WINNING VIEW... Mrs H.J. Scott wins a $50 travel voucher for her letter on
reading the road. We welcome letters on any motoring or travel-related topic. Keep them
brief – we reserve the right to edit. Contact us by post or email and please include your
postal address. Email the editor at c.viney@ract.com.au
STIFF
CHEDDAR!
Ican see little point in having advisory signs near speed cameras.
All drivers and riders should be aware of the speed limit of
the area in which they are travelling. If not, they are either not
observant about signage or are willing to take a chance on breaking
the required speed limit.
If they exceed the limit and get caught, well, stiff cheddar!
As well as the deterrent of high-visibility operations, there should
be more unmarked police vehicles on the road. Again, if a motorist
is not breaking the law they should have little concern about being
booked.
Peter Newman
SPLITTING THE SPEEDING REVENUE
No – there should be no warning signs! There are no warning
signs for mobile speed cams (and there should be more of
these).
If you want to speed, then suffer the consequences. But what the
RACT should be doing is making the government put all the
revenue raised from speeding fines into a separate budget.
This money should be split so that 5% of the funds raised would
purchase more cameras; 5% to fund additional police officers; and
the remaining 80% should go to improve state-owned roads. Like
Victoria, we should have signs on new roadworks saying ‘Your
speeding fines at work ’.
This spending should be audited by an independent authority like
the RACT.
I drive on average 60,000 kilometres a year and over the last five
years I have not had a speeding ticket. The simple solution is that if
you don't want a speeding ticket, then don't speed!
Michael Ukhoff
PEDESTRIAN PROBLEMS
In my travels around Hobart and suburbs while walking, I have
noticed the following ever-increasing parking offences that
are going unnoticed by authorities. These include parking on the
footpath; parking on the incorrect side of road; and parking on
yellow lines.
Parking on the footpath puts the pedestrian public in danger
because people walking may have to venture on the road to
continue.
These three offences should be addressed forthwith.
M. Broughton,West Hobart
RESTAURANT
RECOLLECTIONS
Icame to Tasmania
in 1962 to pursue
PhD studies and teach
at the University of Tasmania. Restaurants were different then,
as well explained in the article on Pat Collins' Bistro. It would
be interesting to know why the law stood the way it did. I was
unaware of the legal situation that made it so difficult.
The Bistro was a place to get an excellent steak – and Collins had
a gimmick of looking at you and deciding how you would like the
steak cooked. I don't know if he ever got it wrong but I was happy.
There were places where one could get wine with a meal but the
wine was never in wine bottles nor proper wine glasses, nor good,
and there had to be a readiness to move quickly if necessary!
Patrick Quilty AM, Sandy Bay
LOST IN THE MELBOURNE MAZE
On returning from a trip to northern Oz, Alice Springs and
the Outback, we returned to Victoria to join the Spirit of
Tasmania backhome.
The problem we found was the lack of signage off the West Gate
Bridge.
Coming into Melbourne from Seymour, the bridge is a maze of
roads. You have to keep your wits about you – the scarcity of signs
to Station Pier is a problem and to compound the situation we
found ourselves on a toll road, even though we tried to avoid it. Not
having an E-tag, the fee for travel was $2.78 plus an administration
charge of $11.47.
There needs to be better signage to the Spirit to avoid this problem.
Michael Dennis, Sheffield
OUR VIEW
Of course we respect the right of every RACT member to hold an
opinion on this issue – but the RACT’s position is that appropriate
advisory signage should be installed near the locations of fixed speed
cameras. In our article on page 4, we explain the reasons for our view.
DECEMBER 2015 / JANUARY 2016 Journeys 11
IN OUR COMMUNITY